I'm sure it was disappointing for students not to be able to participate in the walk-out due to the snow day and hope a lot of them outside Boston were able to learn of and participate in this rally.

Various localities have been very supportive of alternative plans. The Revere school superintendent tweeted that there would be a student rally at Revere City Hall as a replacement, and Newton postponed it to tomorrow with the mayor attending at one high school and the superintendent at the other.

These rallies should not be happening during the school day. It sets a very bad precedent and any political group which is denied permission to rally in the same manner will have strong grounds to sue school districts.

For instance: What happens when a pro-life group demands a march for unborn children by students during the day? What happens when an anti-drug or alcohol group demands a march for all the students killed by substance abuse or drunk driving? Don't these groups and their student supporters deserve equal time and accommodation?

Do supposedly non-partisan school districts really want to get dragged into cause-wars and accommodation/discrimination litigation with all the other problems districts are already burdened with?

I remember when the nuns let us out to protest the Vietnam War and my parents had no problem with it. Find enough kids that want to subject themselves to coat hangers to placate the fools that profit from the hate of abortions they might have to have someday and have your own march.

I think it meant more because the students dragged themselves to Boston proper on a day off from school. They could have been playing in the snow or sleeping or hanging out with friends. Instead they chose to show up and make their voices heard. That speaks more to me than being given a red carpet to leave school and go protest during class.

"Walk-outs" did happen at local college campuses, including the BU Medical campus, where students and doctors gathered to speak about the need to prevent domestic gun violence and gang gun violence, in addition to mass shootings.

AFTER a storm has passed should take note. If your students are perfectly capable of getting themselves to the State House the day after a blizzard, then perhaps they are perfectly capable of going to school the day after a blizzard as well

BPS cancelled school so the city/residents could shovel the sidewalks, parking lots, bus stops used by 56,000 children plus the thousands of adults who need to get to those schools to teach, and feed said children.

Even if there hadn't been a storm yesterday, you still would've seen these kids at the State House. Both the mayor and the school superintendent stood behind the walkout (although the school superintendent asked for students to bring in a permission slip).

Between 99.992 and 99.999 percent of gun owners aren't out to get anyone. Accusing them of having blood on their hands is wrong ethically and stupid politically.

Directing the full-throated ire of the children's crusade against people who aren't responsible in word or deed for the thing you're protesting is a half-cocked misapplication of energy and will backfire by causing gun rights groups to (rightly) scream that they're out to take everyone's guns. They can point to the young man with the wordy sign in the photo. One hopes that cooler heads will prevail and this is merely a flash in the pan.

I know I bit the bullet and bought a gun not too long after the propaganda machine went into full auto telling me how magical and totally not astroturfed these kids' protest is, that guns are the way of the past and us bitter clingers are going to die off soon, and that even the word "gun" needs to be expunged from the English language.

The first caller to reply with the correct number of firearms-related metaphors and turns-of-phrase in this post gets to explain to everyone else how deeply guns are ingrained in our culture and how foolish it is to try to pry them out of people's hands.

Bonus points will be awarded for a chronologically-sorted list of references based on the period in weapons technology from which said turns-of-phrase originated.

Accusing them of having blood on their hands is wrong ethically and stupid politically.

Strawman.

Directing the full-throated ire of the children's crusade against people who aren't responsible in word or deed

Strawman. Didn't happen. The "children's crusade", as you so quaintly name it, is directed elsewhere, and they are directing themselves.

I know I bit the bullet and bought a gun not too long after the propaganda machine went into full auto telling me how magical and totally not astroturfed these kids' protest is, that guns are the way of the past and us bitter clingers are going to die off soon, and that even the word "gun" needs to be expunged from the English language.

Hallucination. Didn't happen.

The first caller to reply with the correct number of firearms-related metaphors and turns-of-phrase in this post gets to explain to everyone else how deeply guns are ingrained in our culture and how foolish it is to try to pry them out of people's hands.